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Description: | Designated collection for the 16th century warship and the 29,000 finds representing the only securely dated source of early Tudor life. The hull is the only 16th century ship on display in the world and the largest recovered find in Britain. 300 tons with 800 timbers in situ and a further 3,000 recovered. The ordnance and weaponry includes heavy cast bronze muzzle loading guns, breech loading wrought iron guns and breech loading swivel guns. Stone, iron, lead and composite iron shot ammunition; Gunner's rule, shot gauge, powder scoops and flasks, rams, priming wires, tampions and linstocks; longbows, arrows, spacers and wrist guards; kidney daggers, swords, bills and pikes: 4597 items in total.
Costume and textiles is 1239 items covering leather shoes, bootd, jerkins, and knitted and worsted garments; There are 140 items of coinage with gold and silver and copper tokens; 19 musical instruments with wind, including pipes, string and percussion;
Personalia includes combs, razors, a 'piss pot', pomander, pewterware, wooden bowls, dishes, plates, spoons, tankards, recreational games with a back gammon set, handheld sundials, book covers, quill pens and an ink pot; 1263 Medicinal items are lidded canisters, urethral syringes, puncture syringe, trepan and feeding bottle; Navigation instruments are dividers, 3 gimbaled steering compasses, plotting board and log reel; tools of the carpenter, food utensils, and barrels of provisions;
A well-preserved comparative set of 16th century human skeletal remains and bones of immature rat and small dog, butchered meat, fish bones, plum stones and peppercorns. The total is 5551 archaeological items, 50 decorative art, 728 science and industry, 3181 social history and 12,221 maritime. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Mary Rose Trust
College Road
HM Naval Base
Portsmouth Hampshire United Kingdom,
PO1 3LX | FAX: | 023 9287 0588 | Telephone: | 023 9275 0521 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4492 | Go to resource |
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Box
Box containing twenty-eight ordnance drawings:…
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